A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

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A Man for All Markets " is firstly an Autobiography Memoir. He starts with detailed life account from the early beginnings of life in poverty through to present day. I was surprised the author dedicated the last 1/3 or 1/4th of the book to personal finance, budgeting, and life view/work life balance. If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. Chào Tiki, cuốn sách nội dung rất tốt nhưng giao cho tôi là một cuốn sách cũ đã được bọc lại rất nhiều lỗi lem luốc mà phải đọc dần dần mới gặp. Tôi chưa đọc hết mới 1/5 đã gặp khá nhiều. Mong Tiki cẩn trọng trong việc bán hàng vì đây là sách mới giá mới. Review từ độc giả bui van hung be — cool. Critical is fine, but if you’re rude, we’ll delete your stuff. Please do not put your URL in the comment text and please use your PERSONAL name or initials and not your business name, as the latter comes off like spam. Have fun and thanks for adding to the conversation! (Thanks to Brian Oberkirch for the inspiration.) Thereafter, Thorp shifted his sights to “the biggest casino in the world”: Wall Street. Devising and then deploying mathematical formulas to beat the market, Thorp ushered in the era of quantitative finance we live in today. Along the way, the so-called godfather of the quants played bridge with Warren Buffett, crossed swords with a young Rudy Giuliani, detected the Bernie Madoff scheme, and, to beat the game of roulette, invented, with Claude Shannon, the world’s first wearable computer.

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In A Man for All Markets , [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to hedge-fund manager. Along the way we learn important lessons about the functioning of markets and the logic of investment.” — The Wall Street Journal One of those unique minds who combined amazing innate math abilities with a flair for practical implications, Thorpe would enjoy decades of results that even earned the respect of Warren Buffet. Thorpe dives into any number of related topics including his own tale of spotting the Madoff fraud 20 years before it came to light....noone listened to him either. This was a very frustrating AudioBook. I have discovered that autobiographies about titans in the finance industry tend to be far too self-aggrandizing for my liking (Currently having the same problem with Ray Dalio's "Principles".) It is made doubly painful when the Autobiography is read by the author. Edward is not a good reader. He has an odd cadence and seems inhibited by something in his mouth (dentures?) that makes his reading style off-putting. On top of that finance titans tend to be rather braggadocios. The book felt even more egotistical having been read by the author.Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

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For someone with some experience in the field, not everything was new information, but it was still nice to be inspired to think about these constructs again. Having made enough money to last him and his wife comfortably for the rest of their lives, he retired to spend time with his family, traveling, and enjoying life. And writing this autobiography, which is full of gems of wisdom about managing your money and life in general. On the crisis in funding for the California university system: “To starve education is to eat our seed corn. No tax today, no technology tomorrow.” (p. 341) Thorp] gives a biological summation (think Richard Feynman’s Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!) of his quest to prove the aphorism ‘the house always wins’ is flawed. . . . Illuminating for the mathematically inclined, and cautionary for would-be gamblers and day traders” — Brought to you by Wealthfrontautomated investing, Athletic Greensall-in-one nutritional supplement, and Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating. More on all three below.He does get into some political stuff, but not really party related near the end. I wish he had touched on the government's role in the mortgage crisis more. He does place blame on the government and SEC in other places, but I feel it's missed there and also in the Great Depression post analysis. So this was the setting when Claude Shannon and I, in September 1960, set to work to build a computer to beat roulette. So far as we knew, everyone else thought physical prediction was impossible. In one section, he really throws down the gauntlet against Efficient Market Theory, but I do believe he and Buffet are outliers and that overall EMT can be important for recognizing that most people will not be able to exploit any perceived inefficiencies and over time the market tends to (mostly) correct, just how long it may take is unknown to most.

A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I

What you should be reading and listening to if you want to enact positive change in the world right now — politically or evolutionarily. [1:08:29] In A Man for All Markets, [Thorp] delightfully recounts his progress (if that is the word) from college teacher to gambler to hedge-fund manager. Along the way we learn important lessons about the functioning of markets and the logic of investment." -- The Wall Street JournalAcadia’s Open-Source Risk Engine (ORE) – How its Expanded Functionality Provides a Real Choice for Firms

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I really enjoyed the dive into the world of gambling, that the author exploited. Making a link between gambling and investing were new thoughts for me, which can help investors making better decisions whilst looking for edges. What was it about Warren Buffett that made Edward come away from their first meeting convinced he’d someday be the richest man in the world? [34:22] When you begin to think for yourself, the whole world changes and becomes much clearer.” —Edward O. Thorp Membership of WIC is a simple, free, upgrade to ordinary membership of wilmott.com. All we need is a bit more personal and career information about you and in return we'll give you access to premium content and add you to a v. exclusive mailing list!The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance.